Cicada diardi Guérin-Méneville 1829: Plate 58, Fig. 1.
Cicada formosa Germar 1830: 45.
Cicada polychroa Perty 1833: 176, Plate XXXV, Fig. 2.
Cicada duvaucelii Guérin-Méneville 1838: 184.
Type locality. The type specimen was described without collection location.
Remarks. A colorful species that has been reported from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay (Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2011a). It has been reported from Misiones Province in Argentina (Berg 1879; Bolcatto et al. 2006; De Santis et al. 2007) which is where we collected our specimen. The species was collected in the understory of the Paranense floristic province (Sanborn et al. 2011a).